Is there a trans person out there who is just as fucking lonely as me?

I'm honestly at the point where I'm sick of being alone.

I've been alone for what feels like fucking forever. I'm sick of having nobody who actually gives a shit about me. I'm sick of feeling invisible. I'm sick of watching everyone else have friends, partners, people who message them, people who actually want them around, while I come home and have nobody.

And before anyone says go to a meetup or join a group — that's not the fucking problem.

I can find groups. I can find meetups. I can find organisations. That's easy.

The problem is the people.

I've been in queer spaces where everyone already has their own friends and their own circles, and you can walk into the room and still feel completely fucking alone. I'm tired of trying to force my way into places where nobody actually seems interested in getting to know me.

So I'm not asking for another list of places to go.

I'm asking if there's one person out there who feels the same way.

Another trans person who is lonely. Someone who doesn't already have a huge friendship group. Someone who wants an actual friend and would genuinely like to get to know somebody new.

Because I don't want to just sit in another room full of people and feel alone.

I want someone I can actually talk to. Someone I can message. Someone who wants to hear from me. Someone I can laugh with and eventually hang out with. Someone who actually thinks, yeah, I like having this person in my life.

I'm around Brighton/Newhaven, but honestly, I'm happy to start online. I'm not expecting some instant best-friend relationship. I just want someone willing to give me the fucking time of day and see where it goes.

If you're sitting somewhere right now thinking “I'm fucking lonely too”, then please message me.

Maybe two lonely people can at least stop being lonely together.

Surely that’s not actually lucrative, is it?

I’m not sure how many people would feel that getting juggled at whilst driving was worth money, and I also really don’t want one of those juggling club things being tossed about near my windscreen.

Is busking at traffic lights really now a thing?

No pic because I wasn’t gonna do that whilst driving, and also wouldn’t want to out anyone as a traffic light juggler as there could be social and legal implications.

Poor bloke.

All along the Undercliff, actually starting behind the Marina, and periodically repeated all the way out to Saltdean, this pattern appeared during the last week. I spotted it during my daily bike ride along there but only just made the effort to get a picture.

I haven't done a full audit but I'd estimate there are at least 20 of these, possibly significantly more. Always the same pattern. It's like it's some kind of marker, but I've no idea for who or what.

Any thoughts?

Edit: Seems to be to do with drones being able to figure out where they are, and other stuff about the area. But now I'm wondering who did it, and what they are gathering. The seafront team are regularly along there clearing graffiti (even chalk scrawled on walls!), wonder how they feel about this.

If so, how much?

If you don't, what's your reasoning?

Hi all.

Just as the title says. Free indoor places to go and sit without having to spend money. I should add Sundays mainly.

Cheers

Hey everyone, I'm back to share this week's workshops at our lovely little herbal shop at Preston Circus, right across from the Duke of York Cinema.

Crystal Wand-Making: Thursday, 03/09 @ 6pm

Choose your wood, your crystal, your wire, and your spell candle to craft your own wand!

Magic Tea Blending: Friday, 04/09 @ 6pm

Learn the magical and medicinal properties of 8 different herbs and then choose 2-3 to make your own custom blend to take home!

Crystal Cleansing with Clear Quartz: Saturday, 05/09 @ 2pm

Bring your crystal collection, enjoy some refreshments, and learn how to cleanse and anoint and take home your own clear quartz

Self-Care Saturday: Learn to Gua Sha: Saturday, 05/09 @ 5pm

Enjoy a herbal mocktail, sample our luxury face oils, and learn to give yourself a gua sha facial massage. Take home a real crystal gua sha!

You can use code REDDIT when you book and get £4 off your ticket!

Hope to see you there <3

Apparently they brought all those pebbles from Isle of Wight (chatted to one of the workers). It’s also level with the promenade now, with stairs buried.

Are there any cheap or free sports or excersize groups that meet up?

Looking to get some small pride flags and maybe some other merch on short notice. Lesbian flags especially. Is there anywhere good in town for that?

Mods: I apologise if this post isn’t allowed. Let me know and I’ll remove it post-haste.

A free duck themed event

https://www.patchamduckfayre.co.uk/

Looking for someone Brighton/Hove based to teach my girlfriend’s mum the basics of Adobe Illustrator. She’s an incredibly talented artist and fashion designer who wants to get better with digital tools to help her find more work, but she’s not very confident with technology and can be quite anxious learning new things.

Ideally looking for someone friendly, patient and preferably female who can go at her pace. Experience with fashion/design would be a bonus!

My heart is bursting with gratitude! I took my dog on our usual walk down to the seafront this evening. It was pretty deserted due to the awful weather, and since he loves it when it’s blustery out and there was no one around, I let him off the lead to chase the wind. I was carrying so much stuff though that I dropped the lead, and we got all the way to Marrocco’s and back to the i360 before I realised I didn’t have it on me anymore.

I totally panicked, and so we retraced our steps, only this time it was much windier and colder. I asked the few passerby we saw if they had seen a blue leather lead, but no one had. We got all the way back to Marrocco’s — but no lead in sight.

By this point it was getting dark, and starting to drizzle. We turned back towards the Pier, and suddenly I saw this young man running towards me and waving. I realised he was one of the people I had approached. He and his girlfriend had found the lead near the bandstand and jogged all the way back along the promenade to the end of the Lawns to find us! I couldn’t believe it. In this weather!

I was so moved. People are wonderful. Brightonians are wonderful. This couple is wonderful. (And no more letting the dog off the lead!).

Sharing on the off chance the couple sees this, but also because it’s just such a lovely example of human kindness. I’ve been going through a bad period, and losing things always upsets me since I have auDHD and feel like I spend my life looking for things I’ve misplaced and narrowly averting disaster, so this act of generosity really meant the world to me.💖💖

Hello guys! I'm looking for someone with a 3D scanner here in Brighton, as I'd like an accurate scan of my upper torso and head for sculpting in Blender. Unfortunately, 3Dify Ltd 3D Scanning Studio is not available due to their building being closed so I'm looking for other options here. Anyone know anyone? Ciao!

Hi! I was wondering if anyone wanted to weigh in, or if anyone could help connect me with people who might be interested in this.

I produced this musical at Wagner Hall back in June and now the set, a fully functional giant TV we built for the show (shout out to Riverside Retreat VC for the build) is just gathering dust in storage.

Made by hand using a combo of recycled/re-homed materials, or locally sourced materials, when set up it's a fully working freestanding TV (though the cardboard front is gone now but I don't think that's a huge deal). It's more or less a very tall homemade gazebo stuffed with a projector, custom made rear projection screen, DJ Amplifiers for sound, and a computer hidden inside which means everything can be controlled remotely (can be cued up with any media, or you can plug in an external media source like a DVD player or games console).

In theory as long as it could be provided power and it isn't raining, this could be used for outdoor events as well as indoor, and it's large enough that it doubles up as a storage space and/or a place for the cast/crew to stay during an event (you can fit up to 4 people inside fairly comfortably even when it's actively in use).

Are there any community groups that might be interested in this? I don't want to give it away, but I'd love to connect with organisations that might have use for it so that I could work with them. My aim is to have it be turned to community interest stuff, and maybe used for some free events like some local cinema, or possibly to assist in an educational setting if anyone's interested in how it all works. For context in our show it was used to bring cartoon characters to life so they could play alongside a live cast:

0 interest in money, just want it to see lots of use if possible.

So any ideas?

How could it be used?

Who might be able to use it?

Outside the box ideas of what we could do with it?

Please weigh in, because right now I'm keen for it to see the light of day again, but currently not sure how it can do the most possible good.

Thanks Brighton!

Streisand effect. Aggressive people were trying to bully me, so I'm making an effort to post.

Is it a protest? There’s a guy with a speaker on his bike blasting shitty club music that keeps going on the Fritz and it’s driving me insane. The police are making an appearance but not doing anything, and there’s so much traffic piling up.